Opening 'Obamacare' rush shows it's wanted

7:45 PM,
Oct. 3, 2013

Bill Freeman

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Bill Freeman

The long-awaited opening of the "Obamacare" exchange arrived this week - and the exchanges promptly crumbled under the weight of millions of Americans trying to log in and shop for affordable health insurance.

I'm not surprised. I expected it. Obamacare's opponents jeered those technical glitches and panned the first day of the exchange, calling it more evidence that Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, is an unfolding disaster and unworkable. They are wrong.

The exchanges - both the state-created exchanges and the national exchange at Healthcare.gov, which the federal government ...